To be shocked that retail workers don't get extra pay to work boxing day

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AIBU to expect these retail/hospitality workers get extra pay on top of their hourly wage when working over Xmas bank holidays. These workers a missing our on time with their families at christmas with no extra remuneration to compensate this loss of family time.

AIBU or does this just seem very unfair and not at all in the spirit of christmas?

And then the retailers moan when people cant afford to spend.

www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/10/uk-high-streets-face-quietest-christmas-since-credit-crunch?CMP=twt_gu&__twitter_impression=true

Oh, and I had to start that journey at 4:30 a.m. to make it there for 8:45!

It's been like this for 15 years.
We were offered a day off in lieu if we worked boxing day. All staff refused the first couple of years.
I always refused. I don't shop or do anything on Boxing day so I don't expect others to have to work.

Although,

I do quite like in these threads when someone who works in a dress shop is as important as a nurse or paramedic

Loving that...

My OH can guarantee he gets Christmas Day and Easter Sunday off work. He works in a management position for a logistics company that is a sub contractor of a major UK food and clothing retailer (and as such is salaried so doesn't get overtime). The lorries will be coming in to the depot with deliveries from suppliers overnight on Christmas Day into Boxing Day ready to be in the shops by opening time...

"I do quite like in these threads when someone who works in a dress shop is as important as a nurse or paramedic"

Mmm and yet if it was a thread just talking about wages scales and we were saying retail workers should get paid the same as paramedics as in all year round the same posters would be falling over themselves to point out how a paramedic is not the same as a shop worker.

nope , never have done, just regular pay, and last year I was made to stay late unpaid too

You can tell the people who dont work in retail and shop on boxing day by the "oh but drs nurses paramedics and carers have to work so how dare lowly shop workers want a day off from the rat race to have an actual family life."

I know helena!!

Weird isnt it??

I might talk to my nurse freind and tell her the same ...yay, we are twinsies

Cept we are fucking not...and she will probably punch my fucking lights out

But yay me !!!!

I think the fact that retail staff have to work Boxing Day is disgusting to be honest.

I’m working Christmas, Boxing Day and New Years. I did last year too. But I’m in the emergency services so at least I can see why. And I still get double pay or double TOIL.

Nope

Apparently forever my services are just as important as yours

Thats like a fact...people need those dresses

Its as important as being rushed to hospital Christmas day ...apparently

It really annoys me when i see news reports on boxing day of people queuing outside your high street shops first thing in the morning

I was watching a programme about Oxford Street recently. Some utter saddo was camping outside the Disney store from 11.30pm so he could buy a Mickey Mouse plush toy the next day.

I used to work for Boots.
There were some people who had worked there since the 80s, before Sunday opening.
In their contracts it said that they would get time and a half for working Sundays and bank holidays.
That used to be a real pisser, knowing that the person next to you, doing exactly the same job was getting paid more.

This is what happens when you let the Tories smash the Unions. There's no-one who can protect worker's pay and conditions.

I don't entirely trust Corbyn not to make a complete horlicks of it, but if they can help the Unions a bit it will bring long-term benefits.

I work in retail and have been with the same company for 6 years. When I started it was time and a half and a day in lieu. I left for maternity leave and came back on a new contract. Everyone on a new contract gets nothing for Boxing Day and any other bank holidays. No where needs to be open Boxing Day and with no extra incentive to work it,it’s incredibly hard to get people to work and there’s always some people left unhappy.

YANBU that's crap. I didn't realise, so thank you for starting the thread OP. Just assumed it was extra pay.

We need to start a boycott of the shops on boxing Day. If it took off and no one went the shops wouldn't open.

I would have thought most people are sick of shopping by Boxing Day? Soooo tedious.

I work in retail and no we don't get extra for boxing day or any other bank holiday. If Xmas day falls on your contracted shift then you get paid for that. The only other day the shop is closed is Easter Sunday and for that you have the choice of booking a days holiday or losing a days pay or if you wish going in and doing behind the scenes things.

I would have thought most people are sick of shopping by Boxing Day?

Boxing Day is the biggest day in our calendar! We take probably ten times what we take on an average day.

Though I have to say what frustrates me is people who shop on Boxing Day and say to me "oh, what a shame you have to work!" - YOU. YOU'RE THE REASON SUSAN.

I dont get paid extra or a day off in leu for working boxing day

I work in aviation, no days off over xmas/new year and no extra pay. Yes annoying but knew what I was signing up for when I chose my career path!

I have worked Christmas and New Year as an essential worker and didn't mind one bit. I now run a garage/petrol station, we shut early on Christmas eve and New Years eve(4 pm), close Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New years day.

We have our opening times displayed well in advance (2 weeks), but last year at 4 pm on both eves we still had queues off the forecourt, we could have stayed open but we drew the line, switched the pumps and lights off. Customers were wanting us to stay open, our answer? A BIG FAT NO!!!'.Sounds harsh but it is getting busier each year despite our opening times being display well in advance, customers are still wanting us to ignore them and just stay open.